Todor Arnaudov wrote:
Hi Alan,
It was built about 2.5 years ago, the ram cost about $270.
>But the timings are 7-7-7-20 at 1333mhz. Can you beat that? =P
Well done, but I don't think a few % faster are meaningful... As of
buying the fastest CPU at the moment, if it's at the expense of the RAM,
it doesn't make sense to me too - 8 or 24 GB more RAM with 10-20-30%
slower CPU is way better, than the top CPU at the moment with 8 GB of
the fastest RAM. Anything above 8GB make those timings useless - Windows
alone eats 20-30% of those GBs for a breakfast, if you run a few browser
windows, IDEs, other software, and 60-70% are gone. Work for a few hours
or a day and there's no free physical RAM...
=|
My previous machine had 3.5GB and I mounted /tmp in a ramdrive.
My machine before that, which is still in service as my web server has
384MB of ram and it's perfectly happy.
My machine before that was a Windows 3.11 machine with only 32 mb of ram
and it had enough to run two web browsers at once... (there were issues
with the windows resources but well...)
Right now, my web/mail browser is consuming 14% of my ram, the most
hungry app I have and is pausing every few seconds to garbage collect.
It's a total pile-o-shit. Why should I buy more ram when my real
problems are mostly software?
AGI is a different issue. While we are on the climbing side of the hump,
hardware requirements will be quite steep... Once I get some income
again, I plan to build a R&D machine with 256-512GB of ram... I'll
probably also buy one of each of the major accelerator cards for
testing. But that machine will cost in the neighborhood of $20k, on top
of the NAO which I will probably buy first because the price/performance
equation doesn't move as often on the robotics side.
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